Crane (Machine for lifting weights)
a machine for lifting weights, worked either by hand, or by steam, or by hydraulic power. The most common hand form consisting of an upright revolving post and a projecting arm (usually at an angle of about 45°), the jib with a fixed pulley at its extremity. Whenever much hoisting or heavy work has to be done, steam or hydraulic power is always used; the cranes are then either stationary or portable, the latter type being used whenever it is more convenient to move the crane to its work than the converse. The stationary power cranes differ from the hand ones mainly in their vastly greater power, and consequently greater size and complexity of gearing; where steam is used there are generally two direct-acting steam-cylinders, which replace the two handles worked by hand. The very powerful stationary cranes used in docks capable of lifting 50 to 75 tons are examples of this kind. Hydraulic power is very largely used in cranes for these places and in great steel-works; they are simpler in construction, a good deal of gearing being done away with; the water in the operating cylinder is always under great pressure.
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Crane (WALTER painter born)
WALTER, painter; born in Liverpool, Aug. 15, 1845; the son of an artist, Thomas Crane (1808- 1859). He himself was trained as an artist, and much of his work consisted of book-illustrations. Among these may be named his series of "Toy-books" (1869- 1875); "The Baby's Opera" (1877), and "The Sirens Three." In 1862 he began to exhibit paintings at the Royal Academy, showing in that year "The Lady of Shalott," and he was a constant contributor to the Grosvenor Gallery from its foundation in 1877 till 1888. His His pictures nearly always deal, in a somewhat decorative fashion, with subjects of an imaginative nature, such as "The Riddle of the Sphinx" (1887); "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (1895)., He also painted Britannia's " (1897); "The World's Conqueror" (1898), etc. He also produced many very delicate landscape subjects in water-colors; designed wall papers; and published poems, illustrated by himself, "Queen's Summer" (1891), and "The Claims of Decorative Art" (1892). Since 1888 a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolors, he was in 1893 appointed art director to the city of Manchester. He was a prominent socialist, and died in 1905.
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Crane (WILLIAM H an American actor)
WILLIAM H., an American actor; born in Leicester, Mass., in 1845. He made his first appearance on the stage when 18 years old and soon won recognition as a comedian. His rôle in "The Henrietta," in which he was associated with Stuart Robson, was his first Since 1889 he "starred" at success. great in "The Senator"; "The American Minister"; "Father and the Boys" (1907); "The Senator Keeps House" (1911); "The New Henrietta" (1914), etc.
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Crane's Bill
. See Geranium
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Crane-Fly
singular, any twogenus Tip Tipula or the winged fly of the family Tipulidæ; plural crane-flies, the genus Tipula or the family of Tipulidæ; the typical species is popularly known as Daddy Long-legs.
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Crane-ladle
See LADLE. Crank--sometimes called the crane-handle--is a short arm or lever turned at right angles. One side is made round and smooth, to revolve easily in the hands while rotating the hoisting and other motions of the crane; the other angle terminates with a swaged hole to fit the squared end of the shafts which carry the gearing. See CRANE.
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Cranefly
a mosquito-like fly. It is often mistaken for an overgrown mosquito. Despite its long legs and wings, the cranefly is a stumbling walker and a poor flyer. Its natural home is in meadows. Its eggs are deposited in the ground. The second pair of wings are reduced to club-like appendages. Chambers states that the cranefly of England is called Peter-long-legs and that its larvae do serious damage to the roots of growing crops. Anyone who has watched the cranefly try to take care of six long legs at once can sympathize with the distressed owner. My six long legs, all here, all there, Oppress my bosom with despair.
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Cranes of Ibycus
. See Ibycus
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Cranganore
a town in Hindustan, in the presidency of Madras, state of Cochin, on the Malabar coast. Pop about 10,000. It is the traditional field of St. Thomas' labors in India; Jews have been settled here since the 4th century; and it is certain the Syrian church was established before the 9th.
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Crank
in machinery, a lever or arm on a shaft, driven by hand (e. g., a winch-handle), or by a connecting-rod, its object ect being to convert reciprocating motion into rotary motion. Enginecranks which convert the to and fro motion of the piston into continuous rotation of crank-shaft are connected to the piston-rod end by the connecting-rod.
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Crank
The bent portion of an axis serving as a handle or connection for communicating circular motion, as the crank on a steam engine. To twist or distort, as applied to metals.
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Crannog
a fortified lake dwelling, of which many are to be found in Ireland. They are supposed to have been formed about the 9th or 10th century.
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Cranston (City in Rhode Island)
ON, a city in Rhode Island, in Providence co. It is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, and the Providence river. Included within its limits are several villages. It is the site of a State reformatory for boys and girls, State prison, almshouse, insane asylum, and a workhouse. The industries include cotton mills, dairying, print goods manufacture and a wire factory. Pop. (1910) 21,107; (1920) 29,407.
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Cranston (EARL an American bishop)
EARL, an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Born in Athens, O., in 1840, and graduated from Ohio University in 1861, he served as a cavalryman in the Union armies during the Civil War. When the war closed he entered the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church. At the General Conference of 1884 he was elected publishing agent, a position he held until his election to the episcopate visited the in 1896. From 1898-1900 he visited the churches in China, Japan, and Corea. He was placed on the retired list by the General Conference of 1912.
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Crash
a coarse, inexpensive, plainwoven linen fabric used for toweling. It is woven usually in narrow widths. It may be bleached, but is sold frequently in the natural color. A smoothly woven quality is used for summer suits by both men and women, and is called crash suiting.
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